From startups to SME to MNC, the importance of hiring good people cannot be emphasized enough. Applicant tracking system (ATS) was supposed to help. Instead, typical systems deploy non-semantic matching and basically surface the resume with the best SEO. LinkedIn…
For folks new to remote working, it may seem like an easy adjustment. You just bring your laptop home and boot it up. As long as the internet connection is decent, what else would be needed? The short answer to…
I just finished giving a talk on HR technology when I was approached by a couple of attendees. They happened to be from the Singapore Navy and was there to learn more about HR Technology which they might be able…
Productivity – the buzzword of the Singapore economy since time immemorial. In the beginning, it was very much centred on the industrial age that we were in. This means getting operators to adopt new equipment, change to new workflows or…
It is painful to watch. The excel sheet that has held payroll data since the company’s inception decades ago is so bloated that the time taken to open the file could allow one to make a cup of coffee, finish…
It is almost by default that any recruiters, salespeople or networkers need to have a LinkedIn account. With millions of users on that platform, it is the easiest way to plug into a vast network which you can dissect, sort…
We’ve seen the rise of chat bots for functions such as customer service and e-commerce. Now get ready to be interviewed by a chat bot for your next job! GrabJobs becomes the first company in South East Asia to roll…
Vaisagh Viswanathan is the co-founder and CTO at impress.ai. With impress.ai they aim to make hiring fairer by using the right data points to deliver a ten fold increase in productivity and efficiency while ensuring that candidates have a better…
When you look back over the past decade, many things didn’t change. One of them is campus recruitment. This is one area where I had probably seen little innovation in trying to make the experience better and scalable to accommodate…
Ever since my article on ‘The Beginners Guide To Boolean Search For Recruiters’ came out, I have been receiving emails from my readers thanking me for the elaboration. But I get a lot more telling me it is just too…
